February 20, 2009

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Financial Protections of Tenure in Case From Puerto Rico

By Peter Schmidt

Tenure affords college faculty members distinct income protections, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday in a decision denying a Puerto Rican private college the ability to rid itself of a professor by simply paying him the minimum severance package required under a commonwealth law.

Deciding against the Inter American University of Puerto Rico in its dispute with Edwin Otero-Burgos, a tenured professor of business it had fired in 2002, a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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